Huawei has already confirmed more about the MateBook Fold 2026 than most leaks usually get to reveal before launch. The company officially unveiled the Kirin X90 Plus chip name on July 29 and confirmed the MateBook Fold’s successor will launch on August 5, alongside a new MateBook Pro S powered by a separate Kirin XE90 chip the first time Huawei has taken its PC processors on stage for a dedicated reveal event.
That’s a notably different situation from typical smartphone leaks, since Huawei itself is the source confirming the chip name, launch date, and several design details through official teasers rather than supply-chain tipsters. Huawei says the Kirin X90 Plus delivers roughly 25% better performance than the original Kirin X90, though full core counts, clock speeds, and GPU details are still being held back until the August 5 event.
The display carries over largely unchanged. Teasers confirm the same 18-inch foldable dual-layer OLED panel running at 3,296 x 2,472 resolution, with 700-nit average brightness and 1,600-nit peak HDR brightness identical to the original MateBook Fold that launched in China back in June 2025. What’s new is stylus support, letting the 18-inch touchscreen handle handwritten notes and drawing for the first time, alongside redesigned hinge and kickstand hardware shown in white, beige, and black colorways in Huawei’s teaser images.
Weight stays close to the original’s 1.16kg, and the laptop still folds down to roughly the footprint of a standard 13-inch notebook when the keyboard sits on the lower half of the screen. Memory and storage configurations remain unconfirmed for this generation, though the original shipped exclusively with 32GB of RAM paired with 1TB or 2TB storage leaving room for Huawei to introduce a cheaper entry tier this time around, something rumored but not yet verified.
Huawei also used the reveal event to share some numbers worth noting: the company claims HarmonyOS PCs now hold a 12% share of China’s thin-and-light laptop segment priced above ¥8,000 (roughly $1,182), and that the original MateBook Fold commands 70% of China’s ultra-high-end foldable PC market. Those are company-reported figures without independent verification, but they suggest Huawei sees enough traction to justify putting its custom PC silicon front and center for the first time.
Full specifications, pricing, and global availability are still pending until August 5. But with the chip name, launch date, and design details already locked down this early, the MateBook Fold 2026 looks less like a rumor and more like a launch Huawei is deliberately building anticipation for ahead of schedule.
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